Book 3. Chapter 28
“An Unexpected Encounter” Part 1
Kalysto's face lost all color as she saw the sheer number of enemies surrounding her. The wide beige dais on which she and the other five were standing was three feet off the ground, allowing her to see absolutely clearly all around her. But everywhere her eyes looked, there was an abundance of monsters. Even what she estimated should be at least seven blocks away from the front of where she was standing, and at least three blocks to either side of her.
That's too many! Where on earth did they get so many monsters? She thought, somewhere between surprised and frightened to see them on their knees and silent. So tame and calm it was hard to believe. Although she had previously come face to face with at least a thousand, she had never seen so many together in the same place, let alone with such a servile and submissive attitude.
Would they be under some kind of spell? Because if so, I want to know too. She thought greedily as she imagined how easy it would be to absorb all the stats and powers of so many monsters if she had control over them, or their minds.
“Death to our enemies! Death to the traitor gods who dared to seal the power of the dark father and tried to steal the power of our lord!” shouted the black-haired woman, continuing her speech. “We will use the bodies of our enemies as a sacrifice for our lord! We will spill the blood of every creature on this continent to prepare for the advent of our lord and with him at our side conquer Elinor and lay it at our feet! Then he will ascend to the heavens and exterminate the traitors!” The monsters suddenly rose up, raising their weapons and joining her in a war-cry. “Death to our enemies! Glory to our lord!”
Kalysto's second of distraction died the instant she realized that the speech was apparently over and she suddenly felt the weight of three gazes upon her, forcing her to focus on the woman who had been giving the speech.
Whose cold black eyes were fixed on her.
“It seems that an unwanted guest has just arrived,” she commented with haughtiness and in perfect calm.
“Allow me to take charge, Lady Eris,” the hobgoblin spoke in a solemn voice, but the woman ignored him.
“Rikshon, take care of her,” she commanded as she unleashed a surge of her magical power. And though it did not feel as powerful as the fairy queen's, it knocked her to the ground immediately, along with Arkhas and Gal'oth, who stood beside her. Even the hobgoblin seemed to suffer at the sudden display of magical pressure, making it difficult for him to breathe.
But in the midst of all that hustle and bustle, Kalysto managed to recognize the voice of the man who began to approach her to comply with the commander's orders.
It was the same voice she had heard when she was trapped inside her mind.
And a wave of pure fear swept over her.
Come on, Kalysto, focus! She scolded herself, recognizing the mental attack and alarmed at the possibility of losing control of her body again. Then she began to calm down as soon as she felt the familiar coldness run through her body again as a black notification appeared to her left.
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[The skill Mental Defense has been activated.]
As soon as her mind cleared and her fear had passed into the background, she immediately began to recite the teleportation spell, expanding the magic seal enough to be able to take the orc with her, though she wasn't sure it would work. But seeing Rikshon rushing towards her as soon as he saw the seal under her feet, while he tried to tear down her mental shield, made her desperately push her own limits to get away from there as fast as possible while struggling to breathe.
Just as she finished activating the spell, she extended the seal at the last second to make sure the orc didn't escape and appeared them both outside the castle of Desmond's king, right in front of the golden protective barrier she herself had conjured, not realizing that unwittingly, both Arkhas and Rikshon had been dragged with her.
A slight dizziness seized her from the excess 'baggage' and her body swayed sideways, immediately drawing Rikshon's attention.
Communication with the sacred beasts! She thought, activating the spell.
“Tsuki, protect me but don't kill them!” She ordered at the same time Rikshon tried to approach her as he again tested the strength of her mental defenses now that she had expended a good portion of her mana at the same time Kalysto coughed expelling some blood that stained the floor.
“Yes, master.” Immediately her pet stepped out of her shadow and began to throw electric shocks at the three enemies.
Arkhas, who was too scared and disoriented by the sudden change of location, did not manage to dodge the attack, and fell to the ground, his screams echoed in the surroundings calling the attention of the guards guarding the entrance door to the castle.
Gal'oth on the other hand, looked more like a hypnotized ghost than an undead, who despite receiving the attack without even bothering to defend himself, remained in the same position. Waiting for his absent master to give him orders.
Rikshon, however, was a completely different story. After evading Tsuki's attack, which alerted the guards who started to approach them, he put them under his spell, making them wield their swords against Kalysto who was still coughing blood.
“Regeneration! Jhil! Jhil!” she conjured as soon as she could, immediately taking out a vial of holy water and drinking it in one gulp.
“I see you are quite prepared,” Rikshon commented from a safe distance, far enough away to easily evade Tsuki's attacks. But in his eyes she could see that he was up to something while acting casual.
Dark mana creation! Dark mana manipulation! She thought at the same time as she spread her shadow as covertly as she could to hide her attack. However, Tsuki, used to living inside his mistress's shadow, did notice it.
Six dark mana tentacles sprouted from Kalysto's shadow, one pierced the shoulder of Arkhas who lay hunched on the ground, another pierced the orc's side, the third was easily dodged by Rikshon, as were the fourth and fifth, but the sixth pierced his leg, making him scream and lose mental control over the two guards who were surprised to see that they had moved from their posts and crossed the protective barrier without realizing what they had been doing at the last minute.
More mana tentacles came out of Kalysto's shadow, wrapping around the bodies of Arkhas and Gal'oth like a snake wrapping around its prey to prevent its escape, and then throwing herself against the mind mage. At the same time Rikshon tried to control the minds of the two guards again, causing them to kill each other and continued attacking Kalysto's mind.
But just as he launched a second attack against her, causing her mental barriers to tremble and she fell to her knees under the immense pressure inside her head, halting her advance, and inadvertently causing her shadow to stop spreading and inadvertently stopping the merging of her shadow with that of the castle to reach him in preparation for a surprise attack.
Then his head fell rolling to the ground at the same time as his masculine body was shattered into small pieces and his blood spread across the floor.